... And what makes the suspicion worse is that practically no-one ever gets prosecuted for the scandals. Certainly nobody at the top.’ 10 Why point the finger at conspiracy theories when there are other, more obvious culprits for this loss of trust, starting with the behaviour of those who think we should trust them? 10 Adam Curtis in his essay 'Suspicious Minds' at <http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis>. ...

... sensations, too...nose 1 A note on Besly's death appeared in Lobster 32. Thanks to Sarah Hipperson for her memories of Besly. 2 BISS was a microwave-based intruder-detection system. This was discussed in the Guardian in 1986, that article being reproduced at <www.mindjustice.org/victims.htm#7>. See also Armen Victorian, The Mind Controllers (London: Vision, 2000) pp. 201-203. bleed, pressure in the forehead, temples and ears; earache; pain in the glands in the parotid region; swelling of tongue resulting in slurred speech; dizziness; bleeding gums; "sunburned" face in mid- winter; pressure in chest, palpitations, nausea ...

... why bother?). DeLillo's description of the Warren Report is so wide of the mark it really is nonsense. The Report is a cogent and well argued document, but one based on faulty findings, omissions, selectivity and the striving to substantiate a prior conclusion. And what is mind-spatter? Shenon's book is an attempt to 'understand the mind- spatter of the report [sic]' continues Dean. Further, 'Days after the killing, as conspiracy theories were already beginning to swarm regarding plots by the Cuban and Soviet governments, President Lyndon Johnson wanted to nip them in the bud' and thus initiated the Warren Commission. But hold on a second, there were plenty ...

... , having defeated the German Wehrmacht.8 They also knew that even a mildly successful 'socialist' regime of that magnitude would present both ideological and economic challenges to the rapacious plutocracy that dominated the West. The Soviet Union offered the US oligarchy the perfect alibi for its wars of colonial conquest after 1945. Baruch and Byrnes inter alia helped establish in the minds of Americans and those under US ideological sway that the US was not conquering to promote an ever-expanding empire but 'protecting' the world from an ever-expanding Soviet Union. Pleasure and pain: consumerism over communism A s Edward Bernays and then Walter Lippmann fondly proclaimed, consent is manufactured and it is essential for the political class in the US to ...

... high enough), 'what do politicians at home know of the cruel, hard facts of life when civil disorder has broken out?' He deliberately courted controversy thereafter, as Conservative MP for Aberdeenshire West, joining the pretty extremist Monday Club and Anglo-Rhodesian Society. He also became an 'icon' for the Conservative Right, who of course didn't mind any of this. There were 'rumours' – only – that he 'was engaged as a trouble-shooter for the Thatcher government' in the early 1980s. Most damaging to his reputation, however, may be the fact revealed here that when the Argylls marched into Crater – ostensibly the most dangerous place in southern Arabia – it was only after ...

... in the south of England. Chances are they would have got the money if they'd said it was for a conservatory.... War criminals news The sight of Tony Blair speaking at the burial of Ariel Sharon was fairly nauseating. Noam Chomsky said on his death that Sharon was 'a brutal killer. He had one fixed idea in mind, which drove him all his life: a greater Israel, as powerful as possible, as few Palestinians as possible.’ 66 Bryan Gould again 66 <http://www.democraticunderground.com/101682631> The Guardian's 'comment is free' carried another piece by former Labour MP, Bryan Gould, now a university vice- chancellor in New Zealand ( ...

... 1970, was both potentially an incredible asset in the Cold War and a big alarm bell about the possible military and intelligence uses of psi by the Soviet bloc. There was a small-scale psi arms race in the 1970s (on the American side tens of millions rather than billions of dollars) and Geller was the star: he could read minds! See into the future! Remote view! Wipe computer discs! Top stuff. And the witnesses to this? Margolis offers us a world-wide parade of scientists and 1 <http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b037k0c5> American intelligence officers. Some of this story has been described or hinted at before; but this is more ...

... the President was dead, I would have staked my life that I was being visited by him. Every feature about him, his face, his hair, his build, even his clothes looked exactly like the President. It was as if a ghost had suddenly appeared. Even his voice sounded so much like Mr. Kennedy's. My mind simply couldn't absorb it all and Louise was struck dumb, her eyes wide open in amazement. Lish introduced the double as a fellow agent and apologized for not preparing us for this shocking experience. We all sat down at the kitchen table. Later I would learn that many American Presidents have had doubles, including President Roosevelt. All ...

... the US Army and was even being talked about as a future President.) Alongside the counterinsurgency efforts of the US Army and Marine Corps, however, there were also the activities of US (and British, although we know very little about this) special forces under the direction of JSOC. JSOC had no time for any hearts and minds nonsense. It hunted down and captured or killed its targets, with those captured being interrogated to provide the intelligence for the next raid. JSOC operated its own prison in Iraq at Camp NAMA. According to Scahill, the CIA which 'had inflicted more than its share of dirty deeds on prisoners had become so shocked at the torture at ...

... the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA). The Islamist Tuareg group, Ansar-e-Dine (Defenders of the Faith) saw the MNLA as a threat and appear to have tried to usurp it by temporarily forming an alliance. A month later, five Europeans were kidnapped, allegedly by 'AQIM', linking Algeria, 'al-Qaeda', and Mali in the minds of the Western publics. In January 2012, Malian troops were massacred by a group alleged to be linked to 'AQIM'. A month later, the Pentagon cancelled Flintlock. In March, junior officers in the Mali Army mutinied, leading to a coup led by Captain Amadou Sanogo.5 2 After a talk at Brown University, an African ...